Oil prices climbed sharply above US$100 a barrel on Sunday after major Middle Eastern producers cut output amid the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the conflict with Iran. The two main oil price benchmarks rose sharply. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the price used for oil traded in the United...

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Mahaicony Technical Institute created history on Sunday, becoming the inaugural champions of the Petra Organisation/MODEC Tertiary Education football tournament. Playing at the Queen’s College ground in the city, the Region Five institution won 6-3 against Upper Corentyne Industrial Training Centre. Winton Hartman led the victory charge with a double (71st and 82nd minutes), while Youance...

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Sanju Samson felt his “dreams had shattered” after a poor T20I series against New Zealand just prior to the 2026 T20 World Cup, but conversations over the past two months with Sachin Tendulkar reassured him that a turnaround wasn’t far away. “To be honest, there has been a lot of guidance and suggestions from senior players,” Samson said after...

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…women decry at oil forum (Kaieteur News) – An oil and gas forum held on Saturday in observance of International Women’s Day was marked by widespread complaints over the high cost of living, with participants expressing little optimism that the situation would ease for families at the lower end of the economic scale. The event themed […]

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(Reuters) – Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed ​his father Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader, signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge in Tehran a week into its conflict the United States and Israel. Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with influence inside Iran’s security forces and vast business networks under his father, had been […]

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External shocks stemming from geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran have already pushed commodity prices upward, creating a mixed outlook for Caribbean economies. This is according to the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) acting deputy director of economics, Jason Cotton. During the bank’s annual news conference last week in Barbados, Cotton presented a review […]

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